A New York City Police Department police officer activates a body camera during a demonstration at the new police academy building in Queens on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. Photo Credit: Charles Eckert

A retired Suffolk County police detective suggested that, as a condition to police wearing body cameras to record all of their actions on duty, politicians should, too ["Politicians should wear body cams," Letters, June 14].

Politicians aren't the ones demanding that police accept this technology, it's the people in the community asking the politicians to fix a growing problem.